Workplace Safety Fears for workplace safety after a poultry worker decapitated. Australia's Meat & Poultry Industry - Workplace Safety under review. AUSTRALIA'S meat and poultry industry is under review after a worker was decapitated while cleaning a fast moving machine at a Melbourne factory, ABC News reports. In August this year, Sarel Singh, 34, was killed instantly when he was sucked into a...

Workplace Bullying Conflict resolution expert Gavan Podbury speaks about workplace bullying. Is it Workplace Bullying or are the victims bringing it on themselves? IT is probably not the advice that anyone who has dealt with a workplace bully wants to hear.   But conflict resolution expert Gavan Podbury says that people who call themselves workplace bullying victims are "losers" who need to learn how...

Thousands of cheering workers greeted Ark Tribe as he left the Adelaide Magistrates Court last Wednesday. Magistrate David Whittle had just announced his verdict – “not guilty” of the charges brought by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). The scaffolder had endured 18 months of uncertainty and 11 court appearances. Six months jail had hung over his head...

Investment continues in major new aluminium production plants, while a new process could reduce the industry's huge energy bills. Sean Ottewell reports.The Ma'aden-Alcoa joint venture has selected Wagstaff to supply the joint venture's vertical direct chill casting complex with t-ingot, rolling ingot, and extrusion billet casting equipment. The contract includes capital equipment and technology to produce aluminium rolling ingot...

A royal commission of inquiry into the Pike River disaster will look at the causes of the explosion and the initial response by rescuers.Prime Minister John Key said yesterday the inquiry would be a royal commission, instead of the initially proposed commission of inquiry.Although commissions of inquiry are usually used for disasters, Mr Key said on the Q&A television...

WorkSafe Victoria has slammed a high-risk-industry employer - which has been fined over a workplace fatality - for failing to provide employees with the "highest possible" safety standards. Also in this article, a bad week for Victorian workplaces has gotten worse with three deaths. Forestry employer Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia Pty Ltd (now part of BSG Holdings Pty...

Consultations on the model work health and safety laws have entered their second phase with the Chair of Safe Work Australia, Tom Phillips inviting public comment.The draft model Work Health and Safety Regulations and priority model Codes of Practice aim to achieve the best possible approach to health and safety for all Australian workplaces and will be released next...

Safe Work Australia has confirmed that the draft model Work Health and Safety Regulations and priority model Codes of Practice will be released for comment in December. The public consultation period will last for four months, before a final "Regulations package" is handed to the Workplace Relations Ministers' Council for approval, most likely in June 2011. Drafting the Regulations...

A REPORT by the coroner and workplace safety officials has recommended no charges be laid following the death of Ipswich resident Christopher Fenton in a workplace incident last year. Mr Fenton, 18, was crushed to death by the forklift he was operating on October 5 last year during a shift at Foodpartners, the meat-processing department at JBS Swift abattoir at...

A Western Australian employer that invests heavily in training and retaining employees and subcontractors - even when work is scarce - has slashed its injury frequency rate by 81 per cent. Several years ago, Park Engineers founder Giulio Azzalini and his son Gary realised their health and safety system "wasn't up to scratch", and spared no expense updating it,...